Action and Dramatic Tension

Event Details

You’ve had the rejection letters and feedback: ‘Not a lot happens; Doesn’t grip me enough; Not surprising or exciting enough to hold attention in a very competitive market; Not enough happens to sufficiently engage young readers against everything else competing for their attention; Too slow; Not keeping me turning the pages; Good opening, but then everything goes slack …’

But YOU know that your story takes your character/s on a life-changing journey, full of meaning.

This workshops guides the writer towards the tools for fixing this negative perception of your story: how to manipulate conflict and crisis, choice and dilemma, to sweep readers into and through the story, gripping with every page.

This workshop intends to:

Give you the confidence to explore solutions that feel right for your own vision.

Develop the tools to find inherent Action & and Dramatic Tension in your story, bring it to the surface and develop it.

Help you understand key components and techniques for creating, developing and maintaining Action and Dramatic Tension.

Help you understand what might be undermining it in your work as a whole, or in sections.

Suggested reading:

Into the Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them by John Yorke

This workshop is part of our Academy Plan: Year Two July 2017 – June 2018.

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